Look Subby, back in the day you downloaded low res jpegs of nekkid wimmens, today Bit Torrenting Hi-Def Donkey Porn sucks up a lot of bandwidth and CPU cycles. Be thankful you can do it at all, in my day we had to road trip to Tijuana to see Donkey Porn.

Phoenix87ta:zedster: Phoenix87ta: zedster: subby please do the followinggo to start and run "msconfig"click the startup tabhit print screenopen up mspainthit ctrl+vhit ctrl+s and save itupload the image here so we can see how much crap your computer is loading

$10 on Bonzi Buddy

I'll see you on that one and go $100 on shopathome

And an extra $100 on unnecessary software bundled with subby's device drivers.

Psssh. My first computer ran on coal.I remember one time waiting 20 minutes for an ASCII picture of a naked girl to load so that I could masturbate, and right in the middle of it, the machine shuts down all because grandma was too lazy to shovel coal.

Biatch. I missed the first ten minutes of Knight Rider because of her.

You just need to take your computer to Best Buy and get the Geek Squad to take a look at it. I hear that their friendly and knowledgeable staff can use their extensive experience in virtually every aspect of technology to quickly make miraculous improvements in any electronic device's performance for an incredibly low price. In the exceedingly unlikely event that they cannot fix your computer, they will work hard to help you select the most economical replacement from the store's vast stock of reasonably priced equipment.

The above code is stuck in every few pages of modern code. That and all 435 programs installed on your computer ping the web for updates every few seconds. And animation sequences with 32 alpha channel graphics have to load every time your mouse hovers over an icon/window/button/etc.

THEN: It used to take 70 minutes to burn an audio CD from .wav files (any faster and you'd get buffer underruns which would corrupt the audio).NOW: An audio CD takes 3 minutes (or less) to burn. And the buffers were huge.

THEN: a 640x480 picture took up your ENTIRE SCREEN, why the hell did you make your images that big.NOW: 640x480 pictures (of chicks in bikinis) aren't even worth downloading (does this come in a larger size).

THEN: Holy shiat, 3D

NOW: Holy shiat, 3D

THEN: that 640x480 picture would take you a second to download (like that 640x464 image I posted above, which is 49KB)NOW: that 640x480 picture ... will still take you a second to download (because TCP overhead that's why) but you can download about 50+ other 640x480 pictures in that same second.

THEN: No tabbed browsing, not much in the way of plugins, barely any javascript, etc.

thiazzi:lewismarktwo: thiazzi: <b><a href="http://www.fark.com/comments/7207971/78018118#c78018118" target="_blank">lewismarktwo</a>:</b> <i>thiazzi: I stopped complaining when it started to take less time to watch a movie than it did to download it.

Strike that, reverse it?</i>

You'd rather it take longer to download than to watch?

Been readin and writin long?

While I may fail at HTML replies, I surpass you in reading comprehension.

subby please do the followinggo to start and run "msconfig"click the startup tabhit print screenopen up mspainthit ctrl+vhit ctrl+s and save itupload the image here so we can see how much crap your computer is loading

akula:InfamousBLT: Haha, this. Go play some super old DOS game. Watch as all of the animations are insanely fast, everything moves way too fast for your mind to even comprehend what is going on. It's actually kind of funny.

Many years ago I was talking to a guy, reminiscing about old computer games. I remarked how I liked the Test Drive series (especially TD2), but TD3 was unplayable on that 286... it ran, but only at something like 4 or 8 frames/second. He said he played the same game on a 386 and it ran properly, but on a 486 it just was way too fast for you to react.

We don't often go back and dust off old games from generations past, but yeah, when one does so the result is something that's really moving along.

I recall tales of one game (I don't remember the name, and I have never played it), but it was a chess game. For some reason, the difficulty of the game increased with the processing power. So, the faster computer you had, the harder the game was.

Apparently it is unplayable on modern computers by anyone except chess geniuses, because they didn't put a cap on the difficulty.

Hyperbolic Hyperbole:umm.. were you even AROUND back in the days of dialup BBSes? seven minutes to download a single sexy jpg? squee'd your pants creamy when mom bought you a 28.8 modem? i mean that shiat was awesome but DON'T pretend it isn't any better than it was in '95.

Or the days of Napster where you'd queue up 3 songs right before you went to bed and if you were lucky you'd at least get one downloaded before it kicked you offline...

Not that I ever downloaded illegal music... 'cause I didn't... Unless the statute of limitations is over, in which case I probably did.

umm.. were you even AROUND back in the days of dialup BBSes? seven minutes to download a single sexy jpg? squee'd your pants creamy when mom bought you a 28.8 modem? i mean that shiat was awesome but DON'T pretend it isn't any better than it was in '95.